This week some key ideas we went over in my group were how do machines operate without humans to give them orders? and what happens when robots designed to help humans turn on their creators? Some texts we used this week were the short stories, the second variety and but who can replace man? both storyś were about robots that were operating without humans telling them what to do. the second variety was about a war between the russians and the rest of the world and robots were implemented to do the fighting that traditionaly humans would take part in but by the end of the story the robots had turned on all of humanity. I thought the story was interesting because in today´s warfare we outfit drones to fight in our wars dropping bombs and firing rockets and the second variety made me think about what would happen if a drone gained a mind of its own and could independently make choices that could result in the loss of human life. the story but who can replace man? was about a futerestic earth where one day all the humans had died off and all the robots were left to govern themselves. this made me wonder what would happen if something wiped out all of human life? what would all of our machines do without instructions?
throuoght this week I have been watching episodes of the twilight zone and reading short stories all related to the interaction between humans and robots. some issues covered were what makes a human different from a robot (TZ the lonely & TZ uncle simon) and what happens when a robot is given a human concious (I have no mouth but I must scream /TZ the lonely) and what I learned was that in most situations giving a robot the qualities of a human does not lead to good results because In the short story I have no mouth but I must scream the artifical inteligence became self aware of its power and it used it against its creators and in the episode of the twilight zone uncle simon the uncle copy's his mind and incaerts it into a robot just before he dies and the robot continues the dead uncle's work after his death. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/humans-not-robots-are-the-real-reason-artificial-intelligence-is-scary/400994/ This week I read some short stories which one was about a scientist that created a race of lizard like creatures that were super smart and had the ability to evolve faster than any other species on earth. what i took away from the story was that science fiction does not have to be aliens from space and the story can be really realistic in the sense that the technology and science they use in the story is not to far fetched. another thing we did this week was watch some episodes of a TV show called the outer limits, one episode was about two brothers one a scientist and one a buisnessman and they were looking for cures to siknesses and a way to make a variation of tear gas but while testing for cures they unexpectly create an super virus that is the cure to all sicknesses. what the brothers do not know is that the cure only lasts for a few days and after that you die, what i took away from the episode was like in the short story the technology is not to far fetched because today we are looking for cures for cancer and AIDS and it is possible that one day we could find a "super cure".
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